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Azerbaijani Erivan Khanate Flag (Khan's Standard)

 

Azerbaijani Erivan Khanate Flag (Khan's Standard), National Museum of History, Baku, Azerbaijan

The Flag (Khan's Standard) of Qajar's Azerbaijani Khanate of Erivan (Persian: خانات ایروان, Khānāt-e Iravān, Azerbaijani: Irəvan xanlığıpresent-day Armenia). 

The Khanate of Erivan was ceded to Imperial Russia by Qajar's (r. 1789-1925, Turk/Azeri dynasty) Iran under the Treaty of Turkmenchay of 1828 (Persian: عهدنامه ترکمانچای, Ahdnāme-ye Torkmânčây,
Azerbaijani: Türkmənçay müqaviləsi).


Administrative division of  Azerbaijan's Khanate of Erivan, 1820

Later, Russia established the so-called Armenian Oblast (province), which existed from 1828 to 1840. 

The Erivan Khanate was mostly populated by Azeri Turks up to 80%, whereas Christian Monophysites Armenians formed less than 20%.

Source:

- Museum of History of Azerbaijan, Baku, Azerbaijan, http://azhistorymuseum.gov.az/en/

- Ministry of Defence, Baku, Azerbaijan, mod.gov.az/en/the-history-of-iravan-410/

- Tsutsiev, Arthur (2014). Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus (PDF). Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300153088, https://abkhazworld.com/aw/Pdf/Atlas_of_the_Ethno-Political_History_of_the_Caucasus.pdf